A bit of Dartmoor sun and cycling

Some more quick pictures, this time of me enjoying a bit of spring sunshine whilst biking on Dartmoor. The sky was blue the trails were dry, and the riding was awesome!

I'm trying (vaguely) to get ready for a Mountain bike race this week at Haldon. Fully Sussed are running a series of races, including some Thursday night evening races. I'll be giving it a go, its all just for fun!

It's hot out there

Whew, what a scorcher we had on Sunday. Tom KP, Phil KP, Ewart and I went for a mountain biking mission on what felt like the hottest day of the year!
We first headed off to Cann Woods on the out-skirts of Plymouth, somewhere we hadn't ridden in over a year. Unfortunately I had so much water in my back-pack that i couldn't fit the camera in, so no pictures. But I can tell you that the riding was great. Most of the trails seemed un-changed since our last visit, except that the jumps all seemed a bit bigger than before! In between melting in the extraordinary heat we had a great time riding some flowing trails, and an awesome off camber root fest!

Ewart on a gap jump over a stream on the cafe side at Haldon

Me on the same gap jump, before eating dirt!

Finally, after running out of water, we returned to the van for Ice-creams, loaded up and headed back to Haldon, outside Exeter. Rather than going to the 'regular' side of the hill at Haldon, we headed over to the 'below the radar' trails over on the cafe side of the hill. It was still too hot to ride hard, but we had fun riding some nice trails. I had two crashes, on the same gap jump, the first time was a laugh, but the second time left me limping and sore! After some good riding we finally called it a day and headed on home to try and re-hydrate ourselves!

Phil on a hip-jump lower down the hill at Haldon

Tom stylin' the same Hip